Ingrid "Sunny" Sommer is a singer for an East German band, called the Tornadoes, whose audience is usually senior citizens.
Finally Sunny has a chance to sing solo on stage with the song Ralph wrote for her, but she does not feel the love that she desires from the audience and gives up.
Wolfgang Kohlhaase, East Germany's most important screenwriter, wrote the screenplay for Solo Sunny and was made co-director of the film.
[3] The inspiration for this film was a German singer named Sanije Torka who was born of eastern European immigrant parents.
[4] The information used for the film drew on an interview Voigt had done with the singer in 1976 that was never published because her lifestyle did not fit East German socialist views.